Why Pinker and Marcus are set off is based on the huge syntactic turn caused by Chomsky which they followed: they all believe(d) syntax was the engine of language, and Universal Grammar UG was in every head just churning out good sentences using 'localized' rules as it were.
Ahhh this thing, thanks for giving me the scholarly word for it. Bane of my existence.
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Be sure to distinguish from pragmatism in philosophy. Linguistic pragmatics is not the same.
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No I know that. Linguistic pragmatics sounds like “did you mean that literally or ironically or were you just trying to get a different point across”
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